D.K. Kirby, B. Parmar, S. Fathi, S. Marwah, C.R. Nayak, V. Cherepanov, S. MacParland, J.J. Feld, G. Altan-Bonnet, A.
Zilman, "
Determinants of Ligand Specificity and Functional Plasticity in Type I Interferon Signaling" ,
Frontiers in Immunology, 12, 4049 (2021)

D. Kirby, M. Smart, J. Rothschild, A. Zilman, “
Pleiotropy enables accurate and specific signaling in
the presence of ligand cross-talk
”, Physical Review E 103, 042401 (2021)

M. Smart, S. Goyal, A. Zilman, “
Roles of phenotypic heterogeneity and microenvironment feedback
in early tumor development
”, Physical Review E 103, 032407 (2021)

L.K. Davis, A. Šarić, B.W. Hoogenboom, A. Zilman,
“Physical modeling of multivalent interactions in the nuclear
pore complex
”, Biophysical Journal, 120, 1–13 (2021)

M. Smart, A. Zilman, “
On the mapping between Hopfield networks and Restricted Boltzmann
Machines
”, International Conference for Learning Representations (ICLR), (2021)

B. Hoogenboom, L. Hough, R. Lim, E. Lemke, P. Onck, A. Zilman,
Physics of the Nuclear Pore Complex”, Physics Reports, Invited review, 921,1-53 (2021)

G. Paci, T. Zheng, J. Caria, A. Zilman and E. A. Lemke
Molecular determinants of large cargo transport into the nucleus”, eLife, e55963 (2020)

Highlighted in Phys.org, Sciencedaily.com

S. Sindhwani, A. M. Syed, J. Ngai, B. R. Kingston, L. Maiorino, J. Rothschild, P. MacMillan, Y.
Zhang, N. Unni, T. Hoang, S. Wilhelm, A. Zilman, S. Gadde, M. Egeblad, W. C. W. Chan,
The entry of nanoparticles into solid tumors”, Nature Materials, 19, 566–575 (2020)

Highlighted in News and Views, Nature Materials, 486–487(2020); Editorial, Nature Materials 477 (2020)

M. Badali, A. Zilman, “
Effects of niche overlap on the transition from deterministic stability to
stochastic extinction in competing populations”
,
Journal of Royal Society: Open Science, 7, 192181 (2020)

P. Francois, A. Zilman, “
Physical approaches to receptor sensing and ligand discrimination”,
Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 18, 111-120 (2019)

C. Gu, A. Vovk, T. Zheng, R. Coalson, A. Zilman “
The role of cohesiveness in the permeability of
assemblies of FG nucleoporins
”, Biophysical Journal, 116, 1204-1215 (2019)

Highlighted in Research Highlights, Biophysical Journal, 117, 3–4, (2019)

N. Kampf, E. J. Wachtel, A. Zilman, N. Ben-Shalom, J. Klein, “
Anomalous viscosity of
polysaccharide dispersions
”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 149, 163320 (2018)

A. Zilman, “
Aggregation and phase separation of FG nucleoporins”, invited review for the special issue,
“Phase Separation in Cell Biology”,
Journal of Molecular Biology, 430, 4730 (2018)

Highlighted by Faculty1000 Biology

M. Ozmaian, D. Jasnow, A. Eskandari Nasrabad, A. Zilman, and R. D. Coalson,
“Effects of Cross-
linking on Partitioning of Nanoparticles into a Polymer Brush
”, Journal of Chemical Physics
148 (2), 024902 (2018)

G. Fu, L. C. Tu, A. Zilman, S. M. Musser,
“Investigating Molecular Crowding within Nuclear
Pores Using Polarization-PALM
”, eLife, e28716, (2017







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